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Dr. Stoddart`s current research orients around three main areas. 1) Relationships between offshore oil and nature-based tourism, which represent different development pathways for the North Atlantic region that often share social and ecological space, but less often share cultural or political space. 2) The possibilities and limitations for tourism development to contribute to social-ecological wellbeing for coastal communities. 3) Connections between Canadian climate change politics, social movements, and media discourse. His main areas of teaching and graduate supervision are environmental sociology, political sociology and social movements, and communications and culture.

Affiliations

The Oil-Tourism Interface and Social-Ecological Change in the North Atlantic. Supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (Principal Investigator).

Making Sense of Climate Action: Understanding Social Mobilization to Curb Anthropogenic Climate Change through Advances in Social Network Analysis. Supported by a SSHRC Insight Grant (Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator: David B. Tindall, University of British Columbia).

Building Resilient Rural Communities through Social Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Shorefast Foundation on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. Supported by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Research Collaborator; Principal Investigator: Natalie Slawinski, Memorial University).

Advocacy Coalitions and Climate Policy in Corporatist and Pluralist Societies: Comparing Finland, Sweden, Canada and the UK. Supported by the Academy of Finland (Research Collaborator; Principal Investigator: Antti Gronow, University of Helsinki). This is part of the transnational COMPON (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks) project.

Climate Change Policy Networks in World Society. Supported by University of Helsinki (Research Collaborator; Principal Investigator: Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, University of Helsinki). This is part of the transnational COMPON (Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks) project.

Stoddart, Mark C.J. (2015). “Wilderness Revisited: Canadian Environmental Movements and the Eco-Politics of Special Places.” Protest and Politics: The Promise of Social Movement Societies (pp. 255-273). H. Ramos and K. Rodgers, Eds. Vancouver: UBC Press. More details are available here.

Stoddart, Mark C.J. and Howard Ramos (2015). “Communications Breakdown: To Move the Masses, Speak Boldly and Carry a Big Schtick.” Alternatives Journal 41(1): 71-72. This is part of a special issue devoted to the Sustainable Canada Dialogues, “Canada’s Map to Sustainability," available here.

Stoddart, Mark C.J. and Howard Ramos (2013). "Going Local: Calls for Local Democracy and Environmental Governance at Jumbo Pass and the Tobeatic Wilderness Area." Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements 5(1): 229-252

Stoddart, Mark C.J. (2012). Making Meaning out of Mountains: The Political Ecology of Skiing. UBC Press. More details are available here.

Stoddart, Mark C.J. and David B. Tindall (2010). “‘We’ve also become Quite Good Friends’: Environmentalists, Social Networks and Social Comparison in British Columbia, Canada.” Social Movement Studies 9(3): 253-271.